35 Facts About The Gutting Of America's Industrial Might That Should Make You Very Angry

china is doing this at some demise to themselves: china pays slave-labor wages and hence these employees can't, themselves, purchase the products they manufacture. Chine must export these items to struggling nations like ours where our consumption has dropped due to lack of employment. This means that, cheap though the Chinese products may be, we are buying less of them and china is seeing reduced revenue but increased borrowing
As jeff madrick states in his excellent article at NationalMemo.com - It's Wages, Stupid
http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/its-wages-stupid
If China paid better wages they could sell more of their products to their citizens. Yes, the cost of those Chinese products would go up - so what? The US gov should follow this type of move with legislation that forces US companies to stop shipping manufacturing overseas for slave-labor wages. Hire Americans, pay good wages and see demand for American made products once again return to the post WWII levels

manufacturing peaked in the U.S. in 1979. We have lost 9 million manufacturing jobs for good since. This was calculated based on the Wal Mart model. It may be to late to get mad over "spilt milk", The effort to buy american was a ruse (roose?) wruze (huh?) back fired. American companies slapped their label on stuff made over seas and can call it made in america. I was standing in a Wal mart years ago. Walton's bio was in a big bin. A man in coveralls and a john deere hat was also looking at the book; Titled "Made In America". I looked at the publisher. It said; Printed and Published in Canada. the man threw the book down and said in a Okie drawl SHEEEE IT

If ALL of us would just quit buying crap from China it would be a real good start. Second, the banks would have to start making loans to new companies here in the US. It is time we take this country of ours back! Put a special tax on ALL brokers of non US products to solve two problems at once. I know, I'm dreaming.

we should have been upset 20 + years ago when they offshored the first jobs with the approval of our goverment.traitors the whole bunch

Excellent post. This is what the OWS movement is about!

It isn't fair and balanced to blame China for this either. Those "multi-nationals" that have been bugging out of the U.S. to move operations to other countries, have moved to everywhere across the globe where they can get away with paying slave wages, with absolutely no regulations on how they treat labor. They have been doing this for 30 years, and I still don't think that China has majority shares in the vast majority of them. It is American greed that is fueling this.

That's nice. Jesus is on the way.

Indeed! More reason to fight for the revolution!

Many are getting mad enough, let's hope it is enough and it happens in a way we can build our country in such a way, that we are no longer dependent upon the greedy few who own us lock, stock and barrel. The previous barons who have jumped ship and moved the industry overseas had this in mind many years ago, this is not just a sudden burst of departure. We have been used for what they needed, we are now only looked upon as consumers, they need us to consume, not produce. In this plan, as I see it, and stated very simplistic, the next step is to get our standard of living down to the level of other low wage countries, they need us, but not so much, so they need us to lower our standards. That is why the middle class has to go. If their wishes come true, all will be very poor. 1% very rich and 99% very poor. We actually still have a good number of high income people left here, soon that number will decrease. (if their plan works). That is why you see our infrastructure crumbling, I have read that they want us to all live in metro cities, no more rural living, the rich will own all the lands we will be crunched in council housing like they have in Britain. I am sure I am not completely right, but I have been seeing this unfold for years, most did not want to believe it, now that it seems to be happening, how many will still dig into their rabbit hole of denial.

Like Chris Hedges stated in his last article (Nov 15, 2011) This is What Revolution Looks Like

"Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt. Pay your loans. Be thankful for the scraps we toss. Chant back to us our phrases about democracy, greatness and freedom. Vote in our rigged political theater. Send your young men and women to fight and die in useless, unwinnable wars that provide corporations with huge profits. Stand by mutely as our bipartisan congressional supercommittee, either through consensus or cynical dysfunction, plunges you into a society without basic social services including unemployment benefits. Pay for the crimes of Wall Street."

See how that works out for us?

Mad enough to enjoy a revolution!